Album



(No ModeL GRIPFITHS ALBUM,

Patented Mar. 12, 18789.

ww f zz/W Gam UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,325, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed November 2, 1888. Serial No. 289,801- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, OWEN J. GnIFFirHs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Albums; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention consists of an album part of the leaves whereof are adapted to receive photographs and part to receive written matter, they being arranged in the manner hereinafter pointed out, so that the album shall constitute a complete repository of family biography, &c. To this end I place opposite each page arranged to receive a photograph a blank page ruled or otherwise adapted to receive writing, and upon which it is intended shall be placed a biographical or other sketch of the person whose photograph is opposite. So far as this invention is concerned, the style of page which receives such written matter is i Thus a sheet of flexible caleni immaterial. dered paper may be interposed between two photograpli-receiving leaves, or the style of album-leaves shown and described in my application, Serial No. 196,220, filed March 25,

1886, which have a sight-opening at one side i for a picture and the opposite side closed and formed of a calendered paper, may be employed.

Bound in and forming an essential feature Q of the album, preferably at the rear, is a fam ily-record, which may be of the usual style, with pages arranged to have recorded thereon the events of marriages, births, deaths, &c., occurring in the family, together with an ancestral or genealogical chart, so that the album as a whole shall constitute a complete repository of family biography, genealogy, &c., which may be kept in a practical, convenient, and perfect manner.

The convenience of such an album as I have described will be apparent, since in a single volume may be collected and preserved facts of family history and interest in a manner I more accessible and less liable to loss than l when the diil'crent parts of which my album y is composed are separate. From the familyrccord portion of the album a general history or record of the whole family may be secured, while a more detailed or extended sketch of any one of such family, together with the likeness thereof, may be found in the other portion of the same book.

In the drawings, l igure 1 represents an album embodying my invention open, so as to show the first page of the family-record por' tion thereof; and Fig. 2 representsa view of the same open at a different place.

A designates the photograph-leaves; B, the leaves opposite thereto. arranged to receive descriptive matter and formed of calendered paper and thinner than the leaves A; C, the family-record portion of the album, and l) the ancestral-chart portion.

hat- I claim is-- l. A book constituting a family-record photograph-album, having photograpli-receiving leaves, blank leaves of prepared calendered paper thinner than the photograph-receiving leaves, arranged opposite thereto and espeeially adapted to receive descriptive matter relating to the photographs, and leaves for a famil y-record arranged at the end of the book, the whole being bound together, substantially I as described. f 2. A book constituting a family-record photograph-album, having photograph-receiving l paper thinner than the photograph-receiving leaves, arranged opposite thereto and especially adapted to receive descriptive matter relating to the photographs and leaves for a l fan'iily-record, and an ancestral or genealogical chart arranged together at the end of the book, sulistantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 1 presence of two witnesses.

OIVEN J. GRIFFITHS.

IVitnesses:

ROY TEWKESBURY, W. J. WATTS.

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